
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Oxford University Press
Published on 6. April 2006
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Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-0-19-927202-0 (ISBN)
Description
According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number of different two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, the contents of thought, and the mind-body problem.
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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Themes from G. E. Moore is a collection of sixteen new essays written by prominent contemporary philosophers. The essays explore a wide variety of themes arising from Moore's work in epistemology and ethics...The collection...reinforces Moore's reputation as one of the truly great philosophers of the twentieth century and demonstrates the resonance and durability of his ideas for contemporary philosophic controversies. * Gregory D. Gilson, teorema *More details
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
Scholars and students of philosophy, linguists
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-927202-0 (9780199272020)
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Two-Dimensional Semantics
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Edited by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, University of Barcelona and Josep MaciĆ , University of Barcelona
Contributors: Richard Breheny Alex Byrne David Chalmers Martin Davies Gareth Evans Manuel Garcia-Carpintero Josep Macia Martine Nida-Rumelin Christopher Peacocke James Pryor Francois Recanati Scott Soames Cara Spencer Robert Stalnaker Kai-Yee Wong Stephen Yablo
Contributors: Richard Breheny Alex Byrne David Chalmers Martin Davies Gareth Evans Manuel Garcia-Carpintero Josep Macia Martine Nida-Rumelin Christopher Peacocke James Pryor Francois Recanati Scott Soames Cara Spencer Robert Stalnaker Kai-Yee Wong Stephen Yablo
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. Anaphoric reference and context sets ; 3. Bad intensions ; 4. The foundations of two-dimensional semantics ; 5. Reference, contingency, and the two-dimensional framework ; 6. Letter to Martin Davies ; 7. Two-dimensionalism: a neo-Fregean interpretation ; 8. Phenomenal belief and phenomenal concepts ; 9. Moral rationalism ; 10. Indexical concepts ; 11. Keeping track of objects in conversation ; 12. Kripke, the necessary aposteriori, and the two-dimensionalist heresy ; 13. Assertion revisited: on the interpretation of two-dimensional modal semantics ; 14. Two-dimenisonalisma and Kripkean A Posteriori Necessity ; 15. Illusions of possibility